3.5-rc5: radeon acceleration regression on Transmeta system

[Meelis Roos]

> > > In 3.4, radeon worked with a glitch - window titles were see-throug (not
> > > drawn). In 3.5-rc5, radeon driver seems to be more careful and disables
> > > acceleration on this system at all. Full dmesg below.
> > 
> > Does it always do it the same? got the dmesg from 3.4 and/or 2.6.32?
> 
> That was a good question. I did some more tries, and it was not 
> repeatable. Sometimes it worked like 3.4 did - rv100 initialized fine, 
> no borders except when maximized, otherwise worked.

Re-tested 3.4.0-rc7 that I had availble from 3.4 times, it worked 4 out 
of 4 times.

> Initial windows border problem seems to have been introduced between 
> 2.6.37 and 2.6.38, bisect is slow.

It's actually more complicated than that. Old kernel images started 
misbehaving from around 2.6.35-rc5 and any kernel older than that was 
OK. When I recompiled the older kernels with squeeze gcc (migh have been 
lenny gcc before, or different answers to make oldconfig), anything from 
current git down to 2.6.33 is broken with radeon.modeset=1 and works (I 
get window titles) with radeon.modeset=0.

2.6.32 works and has kernel modesetting enabled from dmesg but I think I 
did not notice screen going fbcon during boot... maybe it only used the 
modesetting when X started.

So there are 2 different problems (maybe related), the new one above and 
the old one of not seeing some window borders when modesetting and 
acceleration are in use. Maximized windows do have borders.

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Meelis Roos (mroos at linux.ee)